Puts sleeping on sawdust in perspective
"Mommy, why is that man so skinny?"
“L’Homme Qui Marche I,” a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man in stride, has sold at Sotheby’s Auction House in London for a world record price of £65,001,250. That’s about $103,872,319, in case you’re wondering – and it took bidders only EIGHT MINUTES to reach those dizzying heights. The bidding opened at £12,000,000 (a mere $19,176,059) and ended when an anonymous person bid £58,000,000 via telephone. Buyer’s premium upped that to the £65,001,250 figure.
Oh, for the artistic life
I wonder what 20th century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti would have thought about this. He was considered to be a Surrealist artist, and the Surrealists considered themselves to be revolutionaries who liberated humanity through artistic interpretation of dream. Their politics vacillated between Communism and Anarchy, and neither of those carnivals had much time or use for people who had £65,001,250 to play with.
And here you were thinking about taking out payday loans to fix your car. Start sculpting!
A dash of Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti lived from 1901 to 1966. In addition to being a sculptor, he was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker. While some art critics group him among the Surrealists, other terms associated with his work are “Formalist” (if that’s your De Stijl… art nerds giggle) and “Expressionist.” French philosopher Gilles Deleuze described the quality of Alberto Giacometti’s work as being “blocs of sensation.” Whatever the case, it’s probably safe to say that Giacometti’s work reflected his feelings about the subject. Why wouldn’t an artist ! take that route, I ask you? Heck, through mise-en-scène you can even achieve the same end in photography, which some consider the purest way to document reality in an impassive style. … click here to read the rest of the article titled “Alberto Giacometti sculpture sells for world record $103 million“
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